Inside was a maze of oriental hand-carved furniture, porcelain vases and rows of glass display cases crammed with carved jade figurines and other items of onyx and polished hardwoods.

Today the room is furnished with seven pieces of antique oriental furniture.

A couple of rooms have lavish beds, another an assortment of oriental furniture.

S Map The Danish Museum of Art and Design is one of the city's most stimulating cultural offerings, boasting an impressive collection of decorative arts, including extensive displays of European and oriental furniture, silverware and porcelain, with an emphasis on 20th-century Danish design.

Above the bulky oriental furniture in his waiting room, framed Koranic verses that he made from tiny beads hang on the walls, the product of the seven years he spent in prison in the 1980's.

Four hundred yards away, in the small private Bor Museum which housed the collection of oriental furniture accumulated by Hendrik Bor in the nineteenth century, two men in overalls were carrying a chair along a corridor.

The house is filled with antique oriental furniture, chandeliers and traditional decorations, all simple but cosy and very tasteful.

Hill's former studio has been converted into a modern gallery with changing exhibitions while his art collection is shown in his former home together with European and oriental furniture and William Morris wallpapers and fabrics.

It has mirrored doors, and mirrored cross walls reflecting porcelain pagodas and other oriental furniture from Brighton.